Wait a couple decades and then when we find fossils as the result of Mt. St. Helen's you will understand the possible connection.
Combine a meteor impact in or near the "ring of fire" with the atmospheric changes that result and you have all the ingredients for the worldwide conditions that resulted in the catastrophes that produced fossils in widely dispersed areas of our globe.
At one time it was believed that mummification was an artificial process, then scientists found "natural" mummies in the Americas, in peat bogs in England, and etc. We still have a lot to learn about our world.